Laszlo Mag

“Liberal” had ceased to mean being in favor of progress and had come to mean “paying people not to work.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“Most people assume that the challenges that go along with growing a large business are greater than those of growing a smaller one. That is not true. Going from a five-person organization to a sixty-person organization was just as challenging as going from a sixty-person organization to a seven-hundred-person organization—and from a seven-hundred-person organization to a 1,500-person one. Looking back, I can’t say that the challenges were easier or harder at any of the various phases we went through. They were just different.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“theoretically . . . if there was a computer that could hold all of the world’s facts and if it was perfectly programmed to mathematically express all of the relationships between all of the world’s parts, the future could be perfectly foretold.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“managers who do not understand people’s different thinking styles cannot understand how the people working for them will handle different situations,”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work